We all remember Sarah Palin. Like many, I got too got excited about the difference she would bring to the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. She showed well at events, and she looked good on paper. Then came her interviews, and suddenly she was the new Dan Quayle — or, basically, another person who trades on looks and luck and doesn’t figure doing homework is actually necessary. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google, when it came to the idea of cloud computing, initially showed well.